I’ve been following the Lenten prayer prompts from Faith and Water for these forty days. I’m a bit late and doing some catch-up, but the spirit is there.
Isaiah 10:21 (NRSV): “A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.”
Life breaks us into pieces. To those seasons of our lives, Isaiah brings amazing good news: God only needs pieces to rebuild the whole.
Holy God. Whole-ly God.
There is a shattered place.
A land at war.
A house divided.
Brother turns against brother.
Neighbors who are anything but.
Broken remnants of relationship are all that remain.
God, I know my part.
I know my silence.
I know my anger.
I know my action and my inaction.
I have watched it fall apart and have felt helpless to stop it.
Maybe what I’m feeling is what the sons and daughters of Jacob felt so long ago.
Broken.
Confused.
Angry.
Scared.
Looking at all the land… crumbling around them.
A remnant will return.
Pieces are enough.
Whole-ly God, you take our broken pieces and make us whole.
You take this broken world and create life.
You speak good news into our midst.
Help me, O God, to hear a word of hope.
Help us to see light in the darkness.
Help us to pick up broken pieces.
Show us where to begin.
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